A team of European researchers has demonstrated that commercial implementations of quantum key distribution (QKD) are subject to eavesdropping with off-the-shelf equipment.
- By William Jackson
- 09/13/2010
Microsoft has renamed its Office Communications Server Lync Server 2010 and has posted the release candidate and a planning tool.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 09/13/2010
Microsoft this week disclosed that its Business Productivity Online Services (BPOS) had three service outages that affected BPOS customers in North America in August and September.
A scan of IT systems at US-CERT, the Homeland Security Department's primary operational cybersecurity agency, found hundreds of vulnerabilities that could allow someone to compromise data, according to a recent inspector general's report.
- By William Jackson
- 09/10/2010
Microsoft today released a beta of its upcoming customer relationship management (CRM) solution.
Citrix Systems is on the move yet again, virtually speaking, having formed a desktop virtualization partnership with Cisco Systems.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 09/09/2010
A fierce mobile OS competition will start leveling the field in the next four years, the research firm predicts.
For the second month in a row, Microsoft will be rolling out a heavier than usual patch load of nine.
- By Jabulani Leffall
- 09/09/2010
Microsoft continued to dribble out information about the forthcoming Office for Mac 2011 product, announcing four new features on Wednesday.
Microsoft last week released the latest version of a free tool designed to help ward off attacks to legacy software.
Microsoft last week described a different way to use desktop virtualization to maintain legacy applications and still move users to Windows 7.
Microsoft today announced that its new Windows Phone 7 mobile operating system has been released to hardware manufacturing partners.
Microsoft received a "strong positive" rating in a study of e-mail system vendors by Gartner, which was released in mid-August.
Microsoft updated its security advisory today concerning a dynamic link library issue and published a "Fix it" solution to help address the problem.
Microsoft is at VMworld in San Francisco this week, but it can't show off its Hyper-V virtualization product because it competes with VMware's products.
In a move aimed at extending its Open Cloud infrastructure, Citrix Systems Inc. has agreed to acquire VMLogix Inc.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 08/31/2010
Microsoft's security team noted late last week that variants of the Alureon rootkit are now capable of infecting 64-bit Windows systems.
Microsoft calls Windows 7 its "fastest selling" operating system, but the new OS may represent increased costs and greater logistical pain for IT shops over the next two years.
Windows Server sales rode high as the worldwide midrange server market showed an 11 percent revenue increase in the second quarter, compared with last year's numbers, according to IDC.
Microsoft today released Service Pack 1 for Exchange Server 2010, which previously was available just as a beta.